Spotted this one this morning. Neil and I were over at Pierces Pass and heard some excited screaming which we assumed was the Rope Swing in action which progressed to dead silence, followed later on by an Ambo chopper that dropped someone down at the site, and returned later to winch them back out.

On 27/05/2014 marky wrote:>I wonder who leaked the video of the incident to the media? Its illegal>what there doing so why would anyone give the footage to the media? Unless>it's taken from a bushwalkers/hiker...

Did ya watch the video Marky? It's just a youtube collection of greatest jumps - there's no actual footage of the accident. In fact, it's kind of ironic listening to the scolding "what are they thinking?" narrations as you watch countless successful jumps with people laughing and having fun... I'm not advocating illegal behaviour -I'm just saying: watch the video = there's the answer to the question "why do they do it?"

On 27/05/2014 Snappy wrote:>On 27/05/2014 maxdacat wrote:>>So next time a take a long whipper and swing around on the rope I am>breaking>>the law?>>What if you claim you were just abseiling really quickly?
How else do you get on Black Rose?

On 27/05/2014 marky wrote:>Martym- the link wouldn't work for me but going off the description given>to the link it's easy to assume that it is indeed the footage of the incident.

I assumed that too. But I watched it waiting for gore and, as mentioned, it's not footage of the incident, just random youtube videos of other people doing it in the past... (dunno what you're trying to say)